[Dev] Metadata modelling question

Thorsten Trippel thorsten.trippel at uni-tuebingen.de
Fri Feb 12 17:05:37 CET 2016


Hi Jörg,

Use a better CMDI profile and not OLAC-CMDI and you will not have any 
information loss.

Cheers
Thorsten

Am 12.02.16 um 16:57 schrieb "Jörg Knappen":
> In our current curation project, I got some really nice and fine grained DC
> metadata with several orles of the
> contributors differentiated like this:
> <dc:contributor xsi:type="olac:role" olac:code="compiler">Con,
> Tributor</dc:contributor>
> <dc:contributor xsi:type="olac:role" olac:code="depositor">Con,
> Tributor</dc:contributor>
> The olac2cmdi XSLT script just removes the subdivisions of the contributors,
> leaving only levelled out information
> like this:
>        <OLAC-DcmiTerms>
>            <contributor>Con, Tributor</contributor>
>            <contributor>Con, Tributor</contributor>
>        </OLAC-DcmiTerms>
> Thus, some information from the DC metadata is lost in the resulting CMDI.
> So, my questions are:
> 1. Should I care about the information loss? Is the information relevant for
> further processing in the VLO?
> 2. If I should care, what should I do?
> 3. If I don't care, should I remove duplicate lines from the CMDI metadata?
> Greetings from Saarbrücken,
> Jörg Knappen
>


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